EA Shuts Down Visceral Studios

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freebs2 said:

hudsoniscool said:
The narrative that these games cost so much money and arnt profitable needs to die. People online had me believing that there is no money being made in this industry, that is untill I got into stocks. I encourage everyone to go out and look at these publishers stocks over the last 5 years. Acti-blizzard, Ubisoft, ea, and take-two all the big publishers traded in America have had huge growth.


In the last 5 yrs price per share
Activision- 10$ to 61
Ea- 12$ to 116$
Take 2- 10 to 104
Ubisoft 1.5 to 15.5

So tell me again how this industry is doing? These publishers arnt loosing money they just want everything to make money like call of duty, destiny, FIFA, overwatch ect. Not every game is going to give u that. It's just greed.

Big 3rd party publishers (unlike first party) have no incentive to publish unprofitable games. They won't finance the developmet of a game if they can't make a proper return on the imvestment.

All the companies you've listed have all grown because they can count on cash-cow franchise that can generate them billions of income thus make them able to sustain AAA development costs: Activision has COD, EA has FIFA, Take2 has GTA, Ubisoft has Assasin's Creed.

All big publishers who couldn't rely on a cash-cow like those have either closed business or have shift their focus (see THQ, se Square Enix mobile games, Konami pachinkos)

All those cash cows u listed have been around for more than 5 years. And all but gta where more popular then so why did they all grow 5-10 times? WOW was massive and COD was huge 5 years ago not nearly as much now yet huge growth. Why?